Escape - in MarkdownV2 escape regex

[kidonng]

Without escaping, the regex matches numbers as well.

[EdJoPaTo]

Uh... that's an ugly regex one. Thanks for pointing that out and for providing a PR!

[kidonng]

By the way, can you also add an extra escape function to MarkdownV2, which is more useful than the existing one?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/60145565 (needs slight modification)

const escape = (text: string) =>
  text.replace(/(\[[^\][]*]\(http[^()]*\))|[[\]()>#+\-=|{}.!]/gi, (x, y) =>
    y ? y : '\\' + x
  )

[EdJoPaTo]

The current idea is that you do not know the input as its from a user for example. But it should be exactly displayed the way the user defined it. If the users firstname contains a [ it should be within the visible result. Even if the user first name contains bla it should be displayed exactly like that as its unknown content.
At least that's what i understand currently as escaping: Make sure the input is displayed as it is just with the markup.

If you know your input you dont need to escape it in the first place. Or only the relevant parts like this:

format.url(format.escape(label), url))

Or do i misunderstand something here? (If there is a feature request lets discuss this in its own issue so the topic is clear :) )